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Draw NUDIS with me next month!

Submitted my honours thesis today!!! Time for a rest. 😅

MBARI’s Video Lab has developed the first benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking in deep-sea video. 🤖🌊DeepSeaMOT tests machine learning models in real ocean environments. This publicly available tool will help advance AI for ocean exploration. Learn more: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03499

Honeyeater Toni Morrison once observed that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was”. Morrison was talking about writing, but her thinking was steeped in the fluvial, the tendency of rivers to reassert themselves in the face of human interference. As Morrison said, “ ‘floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering”.

Kathleen Jennings – whose first novel, 2020’s ‘Flyaway’, won a British Fantasy Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award – imbues her narrative with a gloriously gothic sensibility. 'Honeyeater' is a book of real power and beauty. satpa.pe/Cc4uW0W

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Why Sharks Matter: The science and law of saving threatened sharks from extinction. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t... Sharks are some of the most ecologically important, most threatened, and most misunderstood animals on Earth. Learn all about them with a presentation from marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shif...

I’m giving a (rescheduled until Thursday) free public talk about marine biology, ocean conservation, and sharks!

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Head of La Paloma Submarine Canyon | SOI Divestream 843 YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean

@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 843 is live #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife
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A vertically long white drawing on black. the main figure is a wave of white, flowing from the bottom to the top composed of various invertebrates swimming and flying in unison - a sea slug, a bristle worm, a remipede, mosquito, jellies, and so on. lighter on the background are rough sketches of geometric pattern complementing the fluidly moving animals.

Here's the #InverteFest art book August 2025 cover posted in full - how many species can you identify in this piece? I'll post the answer later when I have the time to annotate the image.

What we do (and don’t know) about autism and ageing – new research Less than 1% of autism research has focused on older autistic people.

Today in "When researchers finally look at autistic adults":

"For [autistics] in midlife, menopause is a challenging transition. Many autistic people reported experiencing more severe physical & psychological menopause symptoms compared to non-autistic people."

theconversation.com/what-we-do-a...

Fish is cute

Large black and holographic bumper sticker in the shape of a school of fish. central white text reads “MAN I LOVE FISH” in all caps.

happy to say my Man I Love Fish bumper stickers are back! These stickers are really so crazy cool in person (and funny too!) a repost to get this to any fellow fish lovers means a lot to me!
#bsnm

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Have you read the latest Deep Sea Round-Up?

We share updates from #DeepOcean including:
🔹 Monitoring seafloor macrolitter,
🔹The influence of the Amazon River’s on the #DeepSea
🔹Plus join the DOSI Instagram Team!

Read it here: buff.ly/NdmxPQ7

The 'centre of the world' and the global race for research Lead the research and lead the way on Antarctica but as the US cuts environmental funding questions are raised about the future of science there.

🌊 "The beauty of #Antarctica is really it's often seen as the bottom of the world, but it's really the centre of the world. It's one continent surrounded by an ocean that is connecting all the other oceans together." — Prof Delphine Lannuzel, AAPP @utas.edu.au

▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

For your native bird print needs

A woman stands behind a podium with a large screen projected behind her. The screen features a multicoloured photograph of a Copepod, with the title "Developing a biological indicator to estimate variablity in the East Australian Current".

Earlier this month, I had the privilege to present the initial results from my Honours research project at the #AMSA2025 conference.

It was a daunting but amazing experience to be on stage, especially at a conference with so many outstanding presenters.

#SouthSandwichIslands Gorgonocephalus chilensis (brittle star or Ophiuroid distantly related to sea stars), w/amphipods and Sterecchinus neumayeri (urchin) hanging on a coral. Special thanks to @echinoblog.bsky.social for species IDs! Detailed caption on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DMOYlDM...

So many podocopida ostracods (aka seed shrimp) in my last sample. Some were HUGE! And some were weeny! And they were all 100% adorable!
🦑 #plankton

Slideshow showing the schedule of talks for the day. My name and title are the last on the list.

My presentation is today in the Physical Oceanography session! I'm talking about creating a biological index to track variability in the East Australia Current using copepod data! #amsa2025

And a teensy glass squid (cranchiid), Liocranchia
#SQXmas2025

Jellies on the beach! It’s jellyfish season, and jellyfish are PLANKTON!! So obviously I’m obsessed! There were a few jellies washed up on the beach this evening, including this tiny lion’s mane (Cyanea capillata) and Moon (Aurelia aurita). 🦑 #plankton

Black and white drawing of a large crustacean with 13 segments, long antenna, many legs, and sharp pointy tail bits. Supergiant Amphipods are the largest Amphipods in the ocean, they live around 7000 m below the surface and feed on detritus, carrion, and anything else they can find. Since food is scarce, they have to gorge when they find it and have expandable stomachs that can fill almost their entire body cavity! #deepsea #deepseacreatures #deepocean #amphipods #supergiant #cutie #drawing 🦑🐡

Just thinking about Supergiants today- and really loving on them- cuties 🥰

4x6 graphite on paper, 2023 #deepsea #deepseacreatures #deepocean 🐡🦑 #drawing #artist #biggestandbest

Snailfish from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 696. For anyone who has touched these fish, is the skin normally smooth or bumpy? The skin on this one looks diff from the others I've seen. #nazcahighseas #MarineLife

The eel facts advent calendar has 5 species of eel on it, ribbon eels which are royal blue and bright yellow, american and european eels hanging out in some eelgrass, a yellow moray, and 2 splendid garden eels which are orange and yellow. The boxes are all numbered in fun boxes with orange and light organ zigzags and a yellow oval in each with the number of the day

You ready for this year's advent calendar?

We're learning about EELS!!!!!

This year's artist @ehrenenglish.bsky.social absolutely knocked it out of the park. Look at these eels!!

These facts cover both biology & history of eels.

Dive in with us here:
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You can spend a life time on a boat - and still be looking at new things every single day! Here is a quick glimpse of what’s just under our feet/boat!!

Forgot the tag! #amsa2025

A man on stage in front of a slide projector screen.

Great talk by Oliver Peterson on mesophotic functional reefs and sponge grounds

A pile of goblin shark stickers that say "goblin mode"

They're here! The goblin mode goblin shark stickers have arrived! Be a goblin! Join my Patreon!

Goblin Mode stickers ship this Friday!

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Photo of a man on stage in front of a large slide projector

Excited to listen to A/Prof Nevill Barrett talking about lessons from 3 decades of MPA and coastal reef monitoring #amsa2025

Green 3D printed model of an algae. It is a large oval with a textured surface.

Green 3D printed model of an algae. It is long and thing and looks like a green bean

Yesterday Sonja Repetti brought these amazing 3D models of algae. Such a great way to help visualise microscopic organisms #amsa2025

From Cryptic to God Complex: Discovery of 5 New Isopods! Senckenberg Nature Research scientists explored one of the deepest and least-known parts of the ocean, the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and nearby regions in the Northwest Pacific. In doing so, they uncover...

What scientists thought was one deep-sea isopod species turned out to be six—five of them brand new to science!

Explore this cryptic group's discovery story and meet the whole isopod crew in the article below:
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